Wes Cooley
MID-1978, AMERICAN journalist John Ulrich sent a message to colleagues in Australia, asking in effect, ‘what have you guys done with Wes Cooley?’ Cooley was about to turn 22 and Ulrich reckoned he made a clear step forward from the ’77 season.
What ‘we’ had done was expose Los Angeles-born Wester Steven Cooley to new circuits, competition and thinking from the likes of Warren Willing. He’d ridden 15 races across five meetings in the summer New Zealand International Series. The day that series ended,
